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WATCH: RED BANK CLASSIC’S 1,110TH PLACE CHAMPION
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Watch the moving video of the very end of the Red Bank Classic 5k race.
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June 15th, 2025 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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TRAINING UNDER FIRE
RED BANK: Volunteer firefighters train to cut into pitched roofs under active fire conditions.
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June 10th, 2024 @ 5am
RED BANK: DUCKLING RESCUED FROM SEWER
RED BANK: The best 90 seconds of video you'll see today: firefighters rescue duckling from 100-foot-long storm sewer pipe.
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May 30th, 2024 @ 2pm
VOLUNTEERS GET INTO THE WEEDS
Toting plastic trash bags, 51 volunteers conducted a walking litter cleanup on Red Bank's West Side Saturday.
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April 22nd, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: WEEKEND PICKS FOR BODY & SOUL
Uplifting music, art shows, old-school jazz jams and a chance to help clean up the town: Red Bank offers some cool options this weekend.
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April 19th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TRANSIT VILLAGE, RBFD ON AGENDA
RED BANK: On Thursday's council agenda: next step towards 'transit village' label; updates to fire department ordinance.
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November 9th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: CODE BLUE ALERT ISSUED
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RED BANK: Borough issues first 'Code Blue' cold-weather alert of the season, in effect into Friday morning.
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November 1st, 2023 @ 4pm
RED BANK: OVEN-MITT FIRE STOPPED
RED BANK: Volunteer firefighters responded to a report of an oven fire in a unit at the Manor Drive condo complex Sunday afternoon.
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September 18th, 2023 @ 1pm
RED BANK: COMMITTEE VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT
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RED BANK: Outreach for volunteers to municipal boards and committees "absolutely working," with applications still welcome, says Portman.
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June 23rd, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: FIREFIGHTERS PRESS FOR RENT HIKE
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RED BANK: Volunteer firefighters derail introduction of borough budget they say would scuttle a negotiated funding plan for their firehouses.
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April 13th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES HOTEL LAUNDRY
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RED BANK: Molly Pitcher Inn briefly evacuated Saturday as employees hold laundry room fire in check until firefighter arrive, says chief.
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March 26th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES APARTMENT
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RED BANK: Smoky fire in third-floor unit briefly empties seven-story Colony House Apartments. No injuries reported, says Chief Hartman.
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March 9th, 2023 @ 7pm
RED BANK: CARL COLMORGEN DIES AT 81
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RED BANK: School crossing guard Carl Colmorgen, known to many for his traffic-stopping holiday headwear, has died at age 81.
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February 2nd, 2023 @ 11am
RED BANK: CITIZEN APPOINTMENTS 2023
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RED BANK: Unpaid citizen volunteers help power local government. Here are the latest committee appointees and re-appointees.
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January 9th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: SYSTEM STOPS DUBLIN HOUSE FIRE
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RED BANK: Dublin House Pub sustains light damage after fire suppression system douses early morning kitchen blaze, officials say.
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September 21st, 2022 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: FIRE DAMAGES DRY CLEANER
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LITTLE SILVER: Volunteer firefighters stop early morning fire at Branch Avenue dry cleaning shop, containing blaze to contents, says chief.
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July 16th, 2022 @ 10am
LITTLE SILVER: FIRE DAMAGES HOME
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LITTLE SILVER: Volunteer firefighters, traveling through heavy fog, quickly stopped a residential fire on Breezy Point Road early Thursday.
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February 3rd, 2022 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: SENDOFF FOR A TWO-WAR VET
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FAIR HAVEN: Borough pauses to honor Ray Taylor, a veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict, who died last week at age 99.
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January 24th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FIRE DESTROYS DELI MART
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RED BANK: Predawn fire destroys Town & Country Deli, second blaze on Shrewsbury Avenue in a month.
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January 22nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES TWO-FAMILY HOUSE
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RED BANK: Fire heavily damaged a two-family home on Shrewsbury Avenue Monday, with no immediate report of injuries.
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December 27th, 2021 @ 2pm
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CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.